A Place Called Winter Quotes

“He was not a scholar – his brain seemed too sluggish or too dreamy to grasp the things demanded of it – but he was never happier than when left alone among books, and would spend hours turning the pages of atlases, novels or tales from history, alive to the alternative versions of himself they seemed to proffer.”
― Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter

“Bad men you want to kiss are the worst; he had only to use the right tone of voice and you offered your throat to the knife.”
― Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter

“He is like a traveler who looks left and right but doesn’t think to look behind or above him. Men like that get eaten by cougars.”
― Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter

“the law is a blind woman and the judge usually an unloved old man.”
― Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter

“She believed the key element to patriotism was display; that it was all about being seen to support a cause, being seen to wave a flag.”
― Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter

“I’m a hopeless conversationalist. I’d always rather listen.”
― Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter

“It’s horrible being laughed at,’ he said. ‘People say you should be a good sport and get used to it, but the laughter never seems friendly and one never gets used to it. Or I don’t.”
― Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter